Triple

T22495125
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joe Gould’s Teeth E556116 entity
Predicate subject P450 FINISHED
Object The Oral History of Our Time
The Oral History of Our Time is the legendary, likely apocryphal magnum opus that New York eccentric Joe Gould claimed to be writing, supposedly compiling countless everyday conversations into a vast record of modern life.
E1540532 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: The Oral History of Our Time | Statement: [Joe Gould’s Teeth, subject, The Oral History of Our Time]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Oral History of Our Time
Context triple: [Joe Gould’s Teeth, subject, The Oral History of Our Time]
  • A. Eyewitness to History
    Eyewitness to History is a historical documentary television series and book project associated with journalist Charles Collingwood that presents major events of the 20th century through contemporary news footage and firsthand accounts.
  • B. A Personal and Cultural History of an Era
    A Personal and Cultural History of an Era is the subtitle of the book "Flashbacks," indicating its focus on blending individual memoir with broader cultural commentary about a particular historical period.
  • C. The People’s History
    "The People’s History" is a poem that reflects on collective memory and social struggle, likely offering a critical, human-centered perspective on historical events.
  • D. The Lessons of History
    The Lessons of History is a concise, thematic survey of human civilization by Will and Ariel Durant that distills key patterns and insights from their multi-volume The Story of Civilization.
  • E. The History of History
    The History of History is a short story included in the collection *The First Person and Other Stories* by Ali Smith.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: The Oral History of Our Time
Triple: [Joe Gould’s Teeth, subject, The Oral History of Our Time]
Generated description
The Oral History of Our Time is the legendary, likely apocryphal magnum opus that New York eccentric Joe Gould claimed to be writing, supposedly compiling countless everyday conversations into a vast record of modern life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Oral History of Our Time
Target entity description: The Oral History of Our Time is the legendary, likely apocryphal magnum opus that New York eccentric Joe Gould claimed to be writing, supposedly compiling countless everyday conversations into a vast record of modern life.
  • A. Eyewitness to History
    Eyewitness to History is a historical documentary television series and book project associated with journalist Charles Collingwood that presents major events of the 20th century through contemporary news footage and firsthand accounts.
  • B. A Personal and Cultural History of an Era
    A Personal and Cultural History of an Era is the subtitle of the book "Flashbacks," indicating its focus on blending individual memoir with broader cultural commentary about a particular historical period.
  • C. The People’s History
    "The People’s History" is a poem that reflects on collective memory and social struggle, likely offering a critical, human-centered perspective on historical events.
  • D. The Lessons of History
    The Lessons of History is a concise, thematic survey of human civilization by Will and Ariel Durant that distills key patterns and insights from their multi-volume The Story of Civilization.
  • E. The History of History
    The History of History is a short story included in the collection *The First Person and Other Stories* by Ali Smith.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69e11e5445bc8190b6a9481926db3355 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f15cb19bac81909bbc2f131186aeea completed April 29, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b17dfe7f48190a0879581d3e4d80f completed May 18, 2026, 1:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b18d9beec8190b890e127c62b2ef6 completed May 18, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b19953e248190b599854dc58771a0 completed May 18, 2026, 1:52 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:49 p.m.